Kathleen Fisher is a Professor in and the Chair of the Computer Science Department at Tufts.
Previously, she was
a program manager at DARPA where she started and managed the HACMS and PPAML programs,
a Consulting Faculty Member in the Computer Science Department at Stanford University,
and
a Principal Member of the Technical Staff at AT&T Labs Research.
Kathleen's research focuses on advancing the theory and practice of
programming languages and on applying ideas from the
programming language community to the problem of ad
hoc data management. The main thrust of her work has
been in domain-specific languages to facilitate
programming with massive amounts of ad hoc
data. Recently, she has been exploring synergies
between machine learning and programming languages and
studying how to apply advances in programming
languages to the problem of building more secure
systems.

Kathleen is an ACM Fellow.
She has served as Program Chair for
OOPSLAICFP,
CUFP, and
FOOL,
and as General Chair for ICFP 2015.
She is an Associate Editor for TOPLAS
and
a former editor of the Journal of Functional Programming.
Kathleen is a
past Chair of the ACM Special Interest Group in Programming Languages (SIGPLAN) and
past Co-Chair of CRA's Committee on the Status of Women (CRA-W).
Kathleen is a recipient of the SIGPLAN Distinguished Service Award.
She is Vice Chair of DARPA's ISAT Study Group and a member of the Board of Trustees of Harvey Mudd College.